The State of Texas came in full panoplied. with every institution of a republican form. with her executive. legislative. and judicial departments modeled precisely after ours. It was a continuation of her statehood. All she had to do was to acknowledge the suzerainty of the United States. and she did it. She retained all of her statehood save what was necessary to be delegated to the United States for purposes of general government. The precedent of Texas is cited to sustain the acquiring as territory of a volcanicformed island in midocean. peopled with a heterogeneous mass of Asiatics. Portuguese. Kanakas. and adventturers of every description.
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